Odell Beckham Jr.’s injured hip is showing improvement, but the star wide receiver still was sore enough to limit his participation in Thursday’s practice after sitting out all of Wednesday.

Beckham, who suffered a hip pointer in the Giants’ 27-23 win over the Ravens last week, said he didn’t yet know his status for Sunday’s game against the Rams.

“I feel better than [Wednesday], so we will see,” Beckham said. “Just keep it going from there and see how we feel. … I am just trying to get healthy enough to play this week.”

Offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan seemed confident Beckham would be able to play after his career-high 222-yard performance.

“We’re very optimistic, we’re very hopeful,” Sullivan said. “We’ll wait and see how it transpires. He’s been really focused and doing as much as he’s been able to do this week. … He’s been very focused in terms of assignments, and things that we’re going to want to do from a pass-game standpoint. He’s in tune, he’s focused, he’s determined and again we’re hoping for the best.”

Beckham noted the timing wasn’t ideal to take a trans-Atlantic flight because of the injury.

“Just make sure you stretch, get up, move around a little bit,” Beckham said. “It is going to be tough. I tend to sleep on the plane. It is really the only time I can get away from everybody, everything and all the outside stuff that goes on.”

The Giants’ running game has struggled all season, rushing for more than 100 yards just once over the past five games. Making it even more difficult to get the ground game going is the fact the Giants have averaged less than 17 carries per game over the past three weeks.

“We’d like to take some of the pressure off of the line so that they’re not always passing it on every snap,” Sullivan said. “I don’t think there are any quick fixes. … We have to execute better and get our fundamentals better. That’s what we’ve been working on.

“If teams are going off of the mindset of being in those one high, bring the extra defender down and play more man-to-man, one high-man coverages. That’s certainly something that we can also take advantage of and may end up being that we’re throwing the ball more at times if that is the case, You’ll have to wait and see.”

Cornerback Eli Apple (groin) was limited in practice, but defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said the rookie was able to do more than the previous day. … Linebacker Keenan Robinson (knee), cornerback Trevin Wade (ankle), and long snapper Zak DeOssie (ankle) also were limited. … Safety Nat Berhe (concussion) did not practice, along with safety Darian Thompson (foot) and offensive tackle Marshall Newhouse (calf).